Mike Seager Thomas

Mike Seager Thomas studied archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.^[3] He has been a full time professional archaeologist since 1996, working in the commercial sector as an excavator/excavation supervisor and as a freelance prehistoric pottery and stone specialist.^[4] Mike Seager Thomas is also a long-term participant in UCL Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project,^[5] the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project,^[6] and—most recently—the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project,^[3][7][8] and he has reported on prehistoric pottery from several IoA Institute of Archaeology training excavations.^[9][10] Out of his involvement in the Leskernick Project, he became the principal subject of project sociologist Mike Willmore's very funny "The Book and the Trowel,"^[11] published in the Leskernick project book Stone Worlds,^[12] and the perceived victim of a "top-down interpersonal project hierarchy," which challenged the egalitarian pretensions of what is otherwise considered a theoretically seminal archaeological project.^[13][14][15] He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology, conflict heritage and landscape archaeology, Rapa Nui, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research.^[2] Books by Mike Seager Thomas include Excavating Stone Worlds (2007), co-written with Sue Hamilton and Phillip Thomas,^[16] the Afrikamütze Database, Volumes 1–3 (2019),^[17][18][19] Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive and The WW2 Foggia Airfield Complex in the Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs (both 2020),^[6][20] and Wally's War: The WW2 North African Campaign Diaries of Walter von Schramm of the NZ Graves Registration & Enquiries Unit (2024).^[21]